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This guide lists links to prominent surveys and polls used in social science and related research.

Polls and Polling Databases

CQ Press Library/Political Reference Suite This link opens in a new window
Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Press provides an integrated search environment for obtaining analysis on Congressional issues in the news and coverage of the status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering. This database searches the full-text of CQ Weekly, CQ Researcher, CQ Historic Documents, contact directories, a variety of reference books, and selected datasets focused on issues in U.S. politics and areas of public policy, such as, health care, education, economics, bioethics, environment, and society. Contents are created by more than 125 Capitol Hill reporters, editors, and researchers to provide non-partisan coverage and detailed analysis of issues facing Congress.
General Social Survey Data Explorer This link opens in a new window
Monitors societal change and studies growing complexity of American society by collecting data for comparative analysis used by legislators, policymakers, researchers, educators and others. National Opinion Research Center's principal funding from the National Science Foundation. Tools available to explore and save variables from comprehensive data sets, facilitate online analysis before extracting for use in statistical software package.
[Coverage: 1972-present]
ICPSR Social Science Data Holdings This link opens in a new window
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is the world's largest archive of digital social science data. ICPSR acquires, preserves, and distributes original research data. This site links to training and curricular material, and a database which provides access to publications based on ICPSR data holdings. More information on ICPSR and other social science data are available from the Social Science Data Service
Database of publications based on ICPSR data holdings

Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP)
The Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP), hosted at Vanderbilt University, links to over 60 academic studies based on survey research conducted mainly in Latin America. The LAPOP surveys analyze citizen views on topics that range from system support and political tolerance, to citizen participation, local government, corruption, and views on authoritarianism. To date surveys have been conducted and are now being archived for: Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela as well as for Madagascar, Israel and Albania.
Pew Research Center
“Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. We do not take policy positions.”
Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC)
“The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank. We are dedicated to informing and improving public policy in California through independent, objective, nonpartisan research."

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research This link opens in a new window
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is an archive of social science data, specializing in data from public opinion surveys. The Roper Center holds polling data ranging from the 1930s to the present and over 22,000 datasets adding hundreds more each year.

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